Archive for October, 2009

Thank you for returning to Moniqueblog! If you like my content, please follow me @moniqueblognet, on facebook, and email me at mljcollegeblog@gmail.com. If you own a Blu Ray and plan on getting Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, you’re in for a treat. On December 12, Blu-Ray owners will be able to take part...
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Ever since Disney announced they were going to make The Princess and the Frog, the first animated movie featuring a black princess, there has been chatter, and quite a bit of it has been negative. People have had problems with Princess Tiana’s original name, Maddy, and her original occupation, a chambermaid, as well as...
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This movie doesn’t play. This movie, based on the Caldecott-winning children’s book by Maurice Sendak (which is pretty serious as well), has been expanded to include themes that could have conceivably been touched on the book. Perhaps this is due to the close friendship Wild Things director Spike Jonze has with Sendak-in fact, Sendak...
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Watch out, Conan O’Brien! A new late-night show, Lopez Tonight,  is premiering on TBS November 9 at 11/10 c. Lopez Tonight is hosted by comedian/actor  George Lopez.  Don’t know who George Lopez is ? (How can you not!) Maybe you’ll recognize him here:   Also, Michael Bearden, the musical director for Michael Jackson’s THIS...
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(www.adam-amy.com) First, a note: Remember the article I wrote about Jughead through the different ages in America’s counter-cultures? Well, lately, I’ve been thinking about what I wrote, and I think I have another counter-culture that I didn’t initially include; the bohemian lifestyle. Thanks to the History Channel and their documentaries on the hippie culture...
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  The Blu-Ray release of Natural Born Killers 15th Anniversary Director’s Cut is October 13, and in celebration of the release, WB has created a special game for all die-hard NBK fans-the Natural Born Killers Quiz Show! I thought I was knowledgable about the movie, but apparently, according to the quiz, I need to...
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